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  • Reason, Ideology, and Democracy

    A Study in Entangled Political Economy

    by Meg Patrick Tuszynski, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Democratic political systems are often thought to be preferable to all others for supporting liberty. Around the world, nations that are more democratic tend to be freer across various aspects of life and human experience. This book undertakes a social scientific analysis of this claim and finds it to be wanting.The reality of democratic systems does not adhere to popular rhetoric. One of the key ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Public Debt as a Form of Public Finance

    Overcoming a Category Mistake and its Vices

    by Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series Elements in Austrian Economics
    Economists commit a category mistake when they treat democratic governments as indebted. Monarchs can be indebted, as can individuals. In contrast, democracies can't truly be indebted. They are financial intermediaries that form a bridge between what are often willing borrowers and forced lenders. The language of public debt is an ideological language that promotes politically expressed desires ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Fiscal responsibility in constitutional democracy

    Edited by James M. Buchanan, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume contains the papers, along with the discussant's re marks, presented at a conference on 'Federal Fiscal Responsibility', held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, on 26-27 March 1976. Additionally, we, the editors, have included an introductory essay which sets forth some of our background thoughts that in formed our organization of the conference and which also de scribes some of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Macroeconomics as Systems Theory

    Transcending the Micro-Macro Dichotomy

    by Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines macroeconomic theory from an analytical framework provided by theories of complex systems, in contrast to conventional theories founded on aggregation. The resulting difference in analytical perspectives is huge: the macro level of society is notpursued through aggregation over micro entities. To the contrary, the micro-macro relation is treated as one of parts-to-whole, and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • James M. Buchanan

    A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy

    Edited by Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    “A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.”– Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA"The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine collection is the extraordinary expanse of James Buchanan's work. Everyone interested in economics and related ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy

    A Rational Reconstruction

    by Richard E. Wagner ...
    James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy: A Rational Reconstruction examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan’s body of work. The book uses Buchanan’s past contributions to explore the present and future relevance of his scholarly contributions and insights. It seeks mainly to explain what insight for their work contemporary scholars might acquire by becoming ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Public Debt

    An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy

    by Giuseppe Eusepi, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series New Thinking in Political Economy series
    Over the past few decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. Using methodological individualism and micro-economics, this book overcomes flaws inherent in the standard macro approach, according to which governments manipulate public debt to promote systemic stability. This unique analysis is grounded in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Politics as a Peculiar Business

    Insights from a Theory of Entangled Political Economy

    by Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series New Thinking in Political Economy series
    'While market activity and political activity are often analyzed independently of each other, Wagner demonstrates their interdependence. His novel analysis shows that politics has a level of complexity well beyond the way it is typically depicted in the social sciences, and shows that political activity has more in common with market activity than is commonly recognized. The book offers a wide ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Federalist Government in Principle and Practice

    Edited by Donald P. Racheter, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Federalism has generally been characterized as a system of government that is friendly to liberty. It is not obvious, though, why this should be so. Federalism is a form of government where citizens simultaneously reside in at least two governments, each of which has independent authority to tax and to regulate. By contrast, in a unitary form of government citizens face only one government with ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Realism, Ideology, and the Convulsions of Democracy

    Edited by Mikayla Novak, Marta Podemska-Mikluch, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume explores the tension between reason and sentiment in democracies and its contribution to the decline of liberalism. Bringing together classical liberal scholars with a deep knowledge of public choice ideas, the chapters delve into this tension from a variety of perspectives. Building on the principle of entangled political economy, as articulated by Richard E. Wagner, this ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Who Owns the Environment?

    by Peter J. Hill, Roger E. Meiners, Terry L. Anderson, Elizabeth Brubaker, William J. Carney, Louis De Allessi, Donald R. Leal, Seth W. Norton, Bruce Yandle, Donald J. Boudreaux, RICHARD A. EPSTEIN, Vernon L. Smith, Richard E. Wagner ...
    Series series The Political Economy Forum
    The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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